Apple is increasingly investing in its machine learning labs in Seattle

When Apple bought Turi last year, and soon afterwards turned the company's offices into Seattle in its thirst for the development of technologies related to artificial intelligence and machine learning, we imagine that Ma had grandiose plans for the city and its future of intelligent machines.

For more proof of this: the creator of Turi and now director of machine learning at Apple, the Brazilian Carlos Guestrin, gave an interview to GeekWire detailing the company's next steps in Seattle, and they live up to Tim Cook's enthusiastic vision on the subject.

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According to Guestrin, Apple is entering into a partnership with Washington University (where he is a professor) to attract specialists in the field of artificial intelligence and to have the possibility of making contacts with other companies working in the same field in the vicinity. Ma is also creating a $ 1 million professor chair at the university in the name of Guestrin is a common practice in American educational institutions where a company or outsider contributes its finances or pays the expenses of a recognized professional.

In addition, Apple, which already rents two floors of the Two Union Square building in the city to house its artificial intelligence team, is expected to take up even more space in the coming months, as the expansion plans include leasing more floors in the city. skyscraper the exact numbers of this expansion were not disclosed, but they serve to give us an idea of ​​the company's ambition and how much it is believing in the potential of this initiative.

(via 9to5Mac)